Securing Partner Supply Chains Act

HR7037 — Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies Act

This bill would create a U.S.-led strategy to secure and diversify critical mineral and energy supply chains. It focuses on allied partnerships, mobilizing finance and private capital, and boosting domestic mining and recycling while advancing labor, environmental, and traceability standards. - Launches a Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) to negotiate allied cooperation, co-finance mining and processing projects, and maintain an MSP database to attract private investment. Energy Security Compacts and related funding are authorized beginning fiscal year 2026. - Creates a new Assistant Secretary for Energy Security and Diplomacy, a Bureau of Energy Security and Diplomacy, and an Office of Energy Security Compacts to lead policy, staffing, and project implementation. The Office's authority ends after 10 years and it requires regular reports and briefings. - Requires environmental, labor, and governance standards, protects sensitive geological and trade-secret information, and bars Compact funds for military aid or projects likely to cause major U.S. job loss or severe environmental harm. The Government Accountability Office must evaluate Compacts within two years and annually thereafter.

HR1262 — Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act

Speeds and strengthens pediatric cancer drug development. It expands which cancer products companies must study in children, reshapes organ transplant network governance and fees, and adds new FDA international and transparency steps. - Children with cancer and researchers: Requires pediatric studies that produce clinically meaningful data on dosing, safety, and early effectiveness and widens the kinds of drug combinations studied. It also sets aside $25 million for pediatric drug studies in each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028. - Transplant patients and transplant network members: Changes Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network governance and financing by allowing quarterly registration fees, requiring those fees fund OPTN operations, improving electronic health record integration, and calling for a GAO review within two years. - FDA partners and drug makers: Creates an Abraham Accords Office to boost regulatory coordination and technical assistance abroad, and forces more transparency during generic (ANDA) reviews about whether generics are qualitatively and quantitatively the same as listed drugs. It also raises the Medicare Improvement Fund amount from $1.4 billion to $2.6 billion. Increases federal outlays by roughly $1.3 billion, driven by a $1.2 billion boost to the Medicare Improvement Fund and $75 million for pediatric studies, adding to federal spending.

HR5490 — Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act

Creates an interagency Task Force to dismantle transnational online scam centers that use forced labor and trafficking, and to coordinate sanctions, asset recovery, and victim support across U.S. agencies and allies. This bill would push a whole-of-government strategy to stop mass online fraud rings in Southeast Asia and hold enablers accountable. - Families and consumers: Requires annual unclassified reports to Congress with estimates of money stolen from U.S. nationals, seizures, and trends to improve public awareness and oversight. - Law enforcement and agencies: Sets a Task Force chaired by the Secretary of State with DOJ, DHS, Treasury, FBI, and others, requires full data sharing, and demands a comprehensive strategy within 180 days with measurable indicators like sanctions and indictments. - Victims and diplomacy: Authorizes State Department programs for trauma informed care, shelter, and reintegration and presses foreign governments while authorizing targeted sanctions under Global Magnitsky and trafficking laws. Authorizes $30.0 million for FY2026 and $30.0 million for FY2027 to the State Department to implement the strategy, adding $60.0 million in authorized federal spending across those years.

HR3332 — Pacific Partnership Act

A coordinated U.S. strategy to guide diplomacy, security, and economic engagement across the Pacific Islands region. This bill would require a formal Strategy for Pacific Partnership and set rules for consultation, coordination, and reporting to address disasters, fisheries, and transnational crime. - For Pacific Island governments, regional organizations, and civil society: would create formal consultative processes to align programming, avoid exceeding absorptive capacity, and support a shared regional development vision. - For the U.S. government and Congress: would require the President, with the Secretary of State, to submit a Strategy for Pacific Partnership by Jan 1, 2026 and again by Jan 1, 2030 that lists goals, threat assessments, response plans, resource needs, and coordination mechanisms. - For regional forums and reporting agencies: would extend immunities to the Pacific Islands Forum under the International Organizations Immunities Act and require annual updates to reports on transnational crime, fisheries management, and trafficking in persons with a Pacific regional focus.

HRES23 — Proxy Voting for New Parents Resolution

Proxy voting for new parents. This bill would let a Member who gave birth, whose spouse gave birth, or a pregnant Member with a serious medical travel restriction designate another Member to cast votes for them in the House, Committee of the Whole, and in committees for a limited period.

HR3971 — Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act

Extending workplace rights to domestic workers. The bill would set enforceable labor standards for household workers, add overtime and live‑in protections, require written agreements, create a Domestic Employee Standards Board, and push Medicaid rules to cover home care workers.